S3 Ships Savage4 Xtreme Accelerator

S3 Ships Savage4 Xtreme Accelerator is the news today, which means another box, download, or retail shelf just got busier.

Raising the performance level of its popular Savage4 family of products, S3 Incorporated today announced its Savage4 Xtreme accelerator.

Featuring significantly increased 166MHz memory and engine clock speeds, as well as higher performing OpenGL software drivers, S3’s Savage4 Xtreme 166 is the fastest 3D accelerator available for the $99-129 retail PC graphics market. Importantly, S3 adds this solid performance boost without increasing cost, delivering the best value segment graphics solution for this year’s holiday buying season.

PC hardware is moving stupid fast right now, and this is one more part of that arms race.